Peter J. Smith

Between two stools (eBook, ePUB)

Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780719098789
• Artikelnr.: 57472028

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Smith is Professor of Political Science at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Turning the
other cheek: scatology and its discontents in The Miller's and The
Summoner's Tales 2. Ajax by any other name would smell as sweet:
Shakespeare, Harington and onomastic scatology 3. M.O.A.I. 'What should
that alphabetical position portend?': Shakespeare, Harington, Reynolds and
the metamorphosis of scatology 4. Cavalier scatology between two stools:
Rochester, Mennes, Pepys, Urquart and the sense of dis-ordure 5. Swift's
shit: poetic traditions and satiric effects 6. Palpable shit: topology,
religion and science